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Theatre attendees bustled into Jones Theatre Saturday evening for the Westcliffe Center of the Performing Arts (WCPA) second evening of Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s Tony Award-winning musical, 1776. Written 57 years ago, 1776 highlights the complexities, conflicts, and compromises of America’s birth. Making a national resurgence for America’s 250th anniversary, 1776 is generationally accessible with its witty, humanizing, and lovable dialogue, musical scores, and dance breaks.  Valley locals and visitors alike took to their seats while illuminated by the patriotic glow of red, white, and blue stage lights as piano covers of the poem-turned-hymn “America the Beautiful” written by Katherine Lee Bates at the top of Pikes Peak, “You’re A Grand Old Flag” by George M. Cohan, and “Amazing Grace” written in 1779 by…